Kale is possibly the worst tasting green thing I've ever tasted. It seems to me people's infatuation with eating garbage like kale is a sort of self flagellation, a penance for transgressions against the gods of good health.

Warren was one of two LTV lawyers who wrote a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court challenging the appellate court decision siding with the coal miners, documents obtained by the Herald show. The high court never took up the case.

Warren was paid about $10,000 for her work, according to her campaign. The latest disclosure comes after the Herald reported that Warren defended an insurance giant against asbestos victims.

An enthusiasm for Tuscan kale is one of the few things I have in common with the First Lady. We grow it. I can't get enough of it. Never did understand why people don't like to eat greens -- not that I have any interest in telling other people what to eat. They should eat what they like, as long as they come by it honestly.

I prefer collard greens or turnip greens, made with ham hocks or smoked turkey wings, if you can't get past the hock thing. Lots of red pepper seeds, a big onion, some big cloves of garlic, salt, pepper, let simmer for hours for collards, not that long for turnip greens.

Delicious and nutritious . Make sure you eat those hocks, or smoked turkey wings too, tender falling off the bone scrumptious.

Easy there, Professor. I understand that it is a cognitive and perhaps emotional strain to muster several daily doses of two-minute hate toward a cultural group that you essentially agree with and belong to, at least when you stop to reflect on what you really believe, and who you object to on essentially aesthetic grounds, because you consider yourself wittier or more thoughtful or honest or insightful than they, and also because through happenstance you have developed an audience that expects you to insult these people. But it will ease up after the election. You're going to get through this.

"“Any vegetable that has a very deep color the way kale does, that means there is a high concentration of nutrients, and that translates into a range of antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects in the body,” says Deirdre Orceyre, a naturopathic physician at the Center for Integrative Medicine at the George Washington University Medical Center."

The way medical schools have sold out to the anti-science left is disgraceful. Usually, it is some rich dope (often the wife or widow) who is just certain that acupuncture works or kale has to be good for you because it tastes so bad. The medical schools go for the green (the spendable kind) and scientific medicine takes another hit. The feds and insurance companies support this because they think it is cheaper to pay for stuff that doesn't work.

With young voters, I think that the war on obesity (i.e., retricting school lunches) is going to hurt Obama more than anything. The school lunch and vending machine restrictions have been put into effect in many high schools over the past few years, and the majority of high school students hate them. A lot of these high school students have graduated and are now eligible to vote and they have a real life exerience with the over-reaching of government in their lives. As you can see on Drudge today, the kids are starting to rebel but they have been complaining about the unfairness of it all for years.

I'm eating more beets. I'll tell you that. Previously, I'd never eaten beets. Ever. Not one. Meade insisted that I taste some that he'd made for himself. Insisted and insisted. I ate a bit of what was a small forkful. That's it. I'm done. Done eating more beets. So now, I'm eating less beets.

Every time I pass by that colossal bag of kale at the grocery store or our local farmers market, I have the distinct feeling that I should be eating more of the dark, leafy green.

I've had that same experience. Just last week I was in Kroger's drooling over the kale, getting ready to sneak a handful and eat right there in the store. As I reach for it, a young lady charged in front of me and buried her face in the "dark, leafy green." I snatched a small piece while the store staff hastened to get the young lady under control and out the front door. Third time that week, they told me.

Rasmussen is the one that is doing the best weighting, because he's not relying on the 2008 election for the proportions. Is this election going to be like 2008 or not? If you think not, you should understand why Rasmussen is different and better.

Also there is methodology to determining who counts as "likely" to vote. You don't just ask people if they are going to vote. If you do, you're not getting sophisticated results. Rasmussen has a whole series of questions that extract whether the respondent is likely to vote.

"Nate Silver looks at recent polling and finds that President Obama performs better in polls that include people who only have cell phones:"

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" As I observed on Tuesday, and as The New Republic’s Nate Cohn also found, Barack Obama seems to have received a much clearer bounce in some types of polls than others.

Although there are exceptions on either side, like the Gallup national tracking poll, for the most part Mr. Obama seems to be getting stronger results in polls that use live interviewers and that include cellphones in their samples — enough to suggest that he has a clear advantage in the race.

In the polls that use an automated dialing method (“robopolls”) or which exclude cell phones, Mr. Obama’s bounce has been much harder to discern, and the race looks considerably closer.

The difference seems especially pronounced at the state level. Mr. Obama got very strong results in a series of NBC News/Marist College polls last week in Ohio, Florida and Virginia, which included cellphones and used live interviewers. Likewise, Tuesday morning’s series of New York Times / CBS News / Quinnipiac polls had reasonably good news for Mr. Obama in Virginia and Wisconsin.

By contrast, the automated polling firm Rasmussen Reports has recently released polls showing Mr. Obama two points behind Mitt Romney in New Hampshire and three points behind in Colorado — the worst results that it has shown for him in those states all year. Another automated polling firm, Gravis Marketing, recently put Mr. Obama at a five-point deficit in Virginia, in contrast to three traditional polls that put him ahead by margins ranging from four to eight points there. A third automated polling firm, Public Policy Polling, has shown stronger results for Mr. Obama, but they also had him with good results before the conventions, and so haven’t shown him gaining much ground."

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The robo-calling distinction is important because firms that used that kind of technology, whether they are polling firms or commercial businesses, cannot use that type of technology to call cell numbers.

Laugh all you want about kale, but a friend recently served 'kale chips' - lightly fried and then toasted little frilly leaves. Cute and so much better for you than the potato(e) version too.

Perfect for an Inaugural Event, don't you think? No doubt Michelle will want to have them on the menu. Ann should immediately take up O's endless invitations to chow down with the Big One so she can tell him all about it. O has thoughtfully already sent her the seating plan, and she'll be RIGHT NEXT to the One. Oh, the joy! (But Meade will surely pop a cork.)

It's all part of the hype. Read about it tomorrow in the WaPo -- both the kale chips and Michelle's new dress for the inaugural balls. It's what all the smart people want you to believe.

Nonapod said...Kale is possibly the worst tasting green thing I've ever tasted. It seems to me people's infatuation with eating garbage like kale is a sort of self flagellation, a penance for transgressions against the gods of good health.

It's interesting to add to my possible menus, to try to like kale. But it never stops there. The kale promoters always try to snatch bacon and eggs away by staying terrible things about my breakfast while I politely eat their stupid kale for lunch.

The same in the school lunch issue: - the Regulators didn't just add fruit and vegetables, they restricted protein to 1.5 ounces and calories to 850. I maintain that telling students in this situation to have their mothers pack snacks is government-mandated hunger for the poor. I thought the Regulators got control because the poor kids were hungry, that poor and hungry kids was a bad thing (it is) and so the government provided lunches. Now the poor are hungry again but somehow the Regulators want us to believe that this is good hunger. Hunger isn't good and I venture to guess that kale hype isn't going to sell this hunger game.

PS. Studies have shown that my special diet emphasizing coffee, dark chocolate, blueberries and bacon will extend my life - possibly forever. Which I will enjoy because I won't be eating kale.

I can hardly wait for heads to explode (not literally of course for all those literal liberals out there!) when Romney defeats the One in November. It will be better than watching everyone going nuts about last nights blown call!

I just don't cook spinach. I can agree with your general rule about eating cooked vegetables hot (I typically prefer them raw - if they're fresh), but I seem to have more exceptions than you. Roasted beets are great when they're hot, but they are really good in the salad. The beets are still warm when they go in, so they mix very well with the feta cheese that's also in the salad.

Also - potato salad. Maybe for me it's roots that are good cold after being cooked.

The Pew Research Center and Rasmussen Reports were the most accurate in predicting the results of the 2008 election, according to a new analysis by Fordham University political scientist Costas Panagopoulos.

The Fordham analysis ranks 23 survey research organizations on their final, national pre-election polls, as reported on pollster.com.

"The rain stopped as Obama wrapped up his speech: "We are going to win Milwaukee. We are going to win Wisconsin," he declared, and "We are going to show the world why the United States of America is the best nation on Earth."

"The sun is going to come out," he added.

As if on cue, the light broke through the clouds in shafts and a huge rainbow arched across the sky behind the stage, as the theme song, "We Take Care of Our Own" played, and the crowd dispersed."

The robo-calling distinction is important because firms that used that kind of technology, whether they are polling firms or commercial businesses, cannot use that type of technology to call cell numbers.

...which is laughable since that, literally, is absolutely false. I wonder how anybody can take Nate seriously when he gets basics wrong.

I WORK for an extremely large cell phone company. I have to deal with this type of nonsense daily. Spam calls from robomarketers are a constant issue.

"The technology isn't able to use it"? Really? Tell me MORE because I find this so endlessly fascinating.

They get your number --- and they will get your cell number in a lot of interesting ways (social media and those idiotic "text this to vote" are amusingly effective) --- they have no problem spamming you with robocalls.

if, like me, you have a medical condition, in my case M.S. for which there is an uncertain cause and lacking a cure or effective treatment, you will get plenty of diets thrown at you promising to restore you to great health. Commonly these are some variation of a "paleo diet" full of things like sea weed, organ meat, and of course kale.

Let me know how that works out, I'm going to eat a green chile cheeseburger with a Dos Equis thank you.

Today at Sam's I was craving colcannon, but I didn't want to eat potatoes, so I figured I'd just saute up a bunch of cabbage. Sam's didn't have any cabbage. They had a big bag of hearts of romaine though. Why not? It was pretty good.

if, like me, you have a medical condition, in my case M.S. for which there is an uncertain cause and lacking a cure or effective treatment, you will get plenty of diets thrown at you promising to restore you to great health

I'm eating more beets. I'll tell you that. Previously, I'd never eaten beets. Ever. Not one. Meade insisted that I taste some that he'd made for himself. Insisted and insisted. I ate a bit of what was a small forkful. That's it. I'm done. Done eating more beets. So now, I'm eating less beets.

You and me both, but The Blonde loves beets, largely because she had an iron deficiency as a kid and they were preferable to the tonic the doctor wanted her to take.

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Unskewed Polls?!?!? You might as well ask Dick "the genius" Morris..

You mean the guy who kept Willie out of jail and in the White House?

Oh well if Jerome "Barack Obama is not Eligible to be President..and is gay" Corsi said it, it must be true...

He certainly nailed the Swift Boats.

Didn't he?

shiloh said...

Rasmussen Polls Were Biased and Inaccurate; Quinnipiac, SurveyUSA Performed Strongly

"Nate Silver looks at recent polling and finds that President Obama performs better in polls that include people who only have cell phones:"

An entirely neutral comment: historically the undecideds, most of them anyway, don't make their final decision as to who to vote for until the final three or four weeks of a presidential campaign. Just as Carter was comfortably ahead of Reagan in September '80 so Bush I was comfortably ahead of Clinton in September '92. Mid-October, that's get serious time, pollwise.

It's funny. When the polls started to tip in Obama's favor during the Democratic Convention, Ann pointed out that Intrade had not moved.

Well, Intrade started to move soon thereafter and currently gives Obama a 72.8% chance of winning. Nate Silver has it currently at 77% in Obama's favor. Granted, a little lower than Intrade. But my guess (just a gut feeling), is that Intrade has a slight Republican bias due to the self-selection of the participation.

I personally don't believe that a 73-77% chance is insurmountable. But even the most ardent Republican has to believe that time is quickly ticking off the clock and that with each passing day, prospects are looking bleaker.

Or, alternatively, is it the belief of many who follow Ms. Althouse that all of this is just one big media conspiracy and that Romney is actually doing better than Fivethiryteight or Intrade suggests?

Intrade appeals to Lefties and all people that don't ubderstand the stock market. And Dems like their phony polls. Any website requiring a passport and two utilities bills to use isn't representative of anyone.

Intrade is based on the same data: the polls. Based on the polls, I'd give Obama a 77% chance too, but I would not make that bet.

Unfortunately, we have a sizable bet wagered on this thing, like it or not, which is another excellent argument for smaller government. Wouldn't it be nice if it was not so important, and was just politics - a ball game where a bad call is just a bad call.